Although slightly bemused - and endeared - by the way Missile switches topics - and apparently so appreciates him not going in the big bath again - Tamhas thinks that a fine idea. This isn't the most pleasant of places, even if the river can be fairer than most spots in the city.

"I'd like that. Shall we start heading back towards the city, then? I'll need to be a man again, to deal with these," he says, nosing towards the fish, "but I can change back, when I'm done."